How Hiredir estimates salaries
Basis: pay stated in job ads on Hiredir
Why do some jobs show a salary with a “~” in front? Because the employer didn't publish one, so we've estimated a gross yearly range. Treat it as a ballpark, not an offer. If the ad does give a figure, that's what you'll see, and we never replace it.
Which official figures do we start from?
Ireland's Central Statistics Office (CSO) does not publish pay quartiles for detailed occupations: its earnings survey groups jobs into nine broad categories and gives only averages and medians. So the estimate is not official statistics. It is built from the pay that job ads on Hiredir state themselves. Only ads that give an annual, monthly or weekly figure are used (hourly and daily rates are left out), each ad counts at the midpoint of its range, and an occupation group is only used once at least 30 ads back it.
How is a figure worked out?
No language model is involved, and the same ad always gives the same estimate. From the ads that state their pay we work out the lower quartile, the median and the upper quartile for each occupation (ISCO-08, the code the EURES vacancy carries). An ad with an occupation code is then looked up in those figures; if its exact occupation has fewer than 30 ads behind it, we use the nearest broader occupation group. The range runs from the lower quartile to the median for junior and entry-level roles, from the lower to the upper quartile when the level is mid or not stated, and from the median to the upper quartile for senior and lead roles. The annual figures are rounded to the nearest €1,000.
What shouldn't you read into it?
The estimate is not a promise from the employer, and it is not what people are actually paid. It reflects the pay that employers offer in ads for the same kind of job, not this employer or this company's pay scale, and offered pay often differs from earned pay. Until enough ads state their pay for an occupation, no estimate is shown for it, and ads without an occupation code get none. If the employer has stated a salary, we show it without changes.